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The husband of a Bermudian man was battered by a thug in an apparent hate crime after a gay pride event in Britain at the weekend.
Neil Carr, a former Berkeley Institute teacher, married to Valentino Tear, said he was heading home from Manchester Pri...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
Seafarers have been warned about a section of dry dock and a damaged sea plane adrift near the island.
The sea plane was being used by a US university for research when it was abandoned 250 miles west-southwest of Bermuda after an emergency landing.
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DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The number of Bermudians in the workforce increased for the first time in 11 years in 2017.
The Government’s Department of Statistics said that, based on last year’s Employment Survey, the number of people employed in Bermuda rose by 178 from 33,481 ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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C.V. “Jim” Woolridge was most famous for his many years as tourism minister.
A man of strong views, he said in his memoirs, The House that Jack Built, that he was “hired, fired, rehired, refired and then rehired again” from the ministry for standing ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
CV “Jim” Woolridge was born in 1926 in Flatts as one of ten children.
He wrote in his memoirs that, appropriately given his later role as cricket’s Voice of Summer, that he “practically grew up on Flatts cricket field”.
Cricket was a lifelong passion...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
A man whose wife died in a boat crash in Hamilton Harbour said yesterday there was “no justice” in the trial of the man responsible for her death.
Andrew Lake, 27, was found not guilty of manslaughter by a majority decision last Friday after a Suprem...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
An online shopping service through the Bermuda Post Office moved a step closer as companies have been asked to outline how they could provide the scheme.
The ministry responsible for government reform is seeking information from interested businesses...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
Residents are being reminded of a change to trash collection next week as a result of the long weekend.
The Ministry of Public Works said this morning that trash normally collected on Monday will instead this week be collected this Saturday due to t...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Lawyer Delroy Duncan will be the guest speaker at the Labour Day Banquet on Friday.
The Bermuda Industrial Union is organising the event, with the theme “Progress towards a fairer Bermuda”, at the Fairmont Southampton.
Mr Duncan’s recent legal cases ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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A series of basic policy errors in the management of Bermuda’s money has left the island in a financial position like nowhere else in the world, an economist said yesterday.
Now members of the public have been invited to a presentation by Robert Stub...
DATE: Aug 28, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter